
This is the README file for: Semra Sevi and Donald P. Green. "Legislative Reciprocity: Using a Proposal Lottery to Identify Causal Effects" Political Science Research Methods. 

This folder contains data, replication files and a log for the analysis for this study. 

The analysis were run using Stata/SE 15.1 on IOS. One of the analyses requires dyadclust Stata package. 

There are three do files and eight data files. 

The do files are the following: 

1. analyses_main_replication 
2. analyses_dyad_replication
3. exogenous_dyad_replication 

Each file should be run for the working directory to be set to the location of the data files.

The data files are the following: 

1. federal-candidates-2021-12-14_prepped_2022-07-19
2. dyad_1
3. dyad_2
4. seconder_complete_rev
5. seconder_complete
6. seconder_frequency
7. seconder_merge_rhs_rev
8. seconds_received 

 
